In this article, the author talks about the report "A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future," which provides a blueprint of what higher education ought "not" to do. The document was produced by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), an organization with a long history not only of demanding the advancement of "diversity" over quality, but of using misleading rhetoric to conceal its agenda. While the report opens with a quote from the Constitution and then proceeds to all but ignore the document over the following sixty-nine pages, any serious discussion about civic education must begin with how colleges and universities treat the Constitution in their curriculum. The author points out that the Constitution--in the curriculum, in faculty hiring priorities, in upholding student rights on campus--is a good place to start in the effort to reform civic education. Such an approach could complement rather than necessarily replace the more traditional approach of cultivating objective scholarship, which the AAC&U and its acolytes have so aggressively rejected. (Contains 12 footnotes.)